Charles Frederick Williams
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Charles Frederick Williams 4 May 1838 Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Died | 9 February 1904 (aged 65) Brixton, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Education | Belfast Academy |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, war correspondent |
| Known for | Former President and Founder of the London Press Club, Former Chairman of the London District of the Institute of Journalists |
| Notable work | The Armenian Campaign: A Diary of the Campaign on 1877, in Armenia and Koordistan; Notes on the Operations in Lower Afghanistan, 1878–9, with Special Reference to Transport |
| Spouse(s) | Georgina Gould Ward |
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| Relatives | Joan Allison Meuser (great granddaughter), Lois Ann Fairley (great granddaughter), and James Douglas Cowan (great grandson) |
Charles Frederick Williams (4 May 1838 – 9 February 1904), was a Scottish-Irish writer, journalist, and war correspondent.
Charles Williams was born on 4 May 1838 in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. He was educated at Belfast Academy in Belfast under Dr. Reuben John Bryce and at a Greenwich private school under Dr. Goodwin. Later on, he went to Southern United States for his health and took part in a filibustering expedition to Nicaragua, where he saw some hard fighting and was reportedly won the reputation of a blockade-runner.
He returned to England in 1859, where he became a volunteer, and a leader writer for the London Evening Herald. In October 1859, he had begun a connection with The Standard which had lasted until 1884. From 1860 until 1863, he worked as a first editor for the London Evening Standard; and from 1882 until 1884, as editor of The Evening News.
Williams was best known for being a war correspondent. For The Standard, he was at the headquarters of the Armée de la Loire, a French army, during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. He was also one of the first correspondents in Strasbourg, where the French forces were defeated. In the summer and autumn of 1877, he was a correspondent to Ahmed Muhtar Pasha who commanded the Turkish forces in Armenia during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 and 1878. Williams remained constantly at the Turkish front, and his letters were the only continuous series that reached England. In 1878, he published this series in a revised and extended form as The Armenian Campaign: A Diary of the Campaign on 1877, in Armenia and Koordistan, which was a large accurate record of the war, even though it was pro-Turkish. From Armenia, he followed Muhtar Pasha to European Turkey and described his defence of the lines of Constantinople against the Imperial Russian Army. Williams was with General Mikhail Skobelev at the headquarters of the Imperial Russian Army when the Treaty of San Stefano was signed in March 1878. He reported this at the Berlin Congress.
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